The graduate students and postdocs of the Yale Center for Genomics and Proteomics invite you to attend the "Next is Now" symposium on New Frontiers in DNA Sequencing and Genome Analysis. The symposium will be held Friday, 19 September 2008 at the Macmillan Center at Yale University in New Haven, CT. It will consist of talks from academia on innovative applications of next-generation DNA sequencing technologies, and on the societal impacts resulting from these new insights.
Confirmed speakers are listed below:
Brad Bernstein, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA
George Church, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Joe Ecker, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA
Elaine Mardis, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Steven Salzberg, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Chia Lin Wei, Genome Institute of Singapore
A flier to accompany this announcement can be found at our website, http://cgp.yale.edu/nextisnow. A detailed program and venue information will be available there soon as well.
Please distribute this announcement to your colleages who may find it of interest. We look forward to seeing you at Yale in September!
With regards,
On behalf of the student and postdoctoral fellow organizing committee,
Roger Alexander and Patrick Cournoyer